How to pronounce “alcoholics” in English

that's what makes Alcoholics Anonymous so powerful-- is that it's a support group.

They become alcoholics.

and friends of alcoholics.

And in Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous, because they had an assembly of people with the common interests of becoming sober and remaining

They're called alcoholics, living off of potatoes, and corn, and grapes, and barley.

You guys alcoholics too?

They became alcoholics, they became depressed.

They became alcoholics, depressed, got divorced.

It changed them into alcoholics.

I might have said "Alcoholics Anonymous" and not been able to think of anything else.

addicts and alcoholics, and why they beat their wives, their children and their dogs.

And a lot of people who become alcoholics are just trying to self-medicate.

It's sort of like an Alcoholics Anonymous.

And some of them were alcoholics, criminals, down and out people.

The case we all know is Alcoholics Anonymous and it's a good example of what I'm talking about.

Most people don't become alcoholics, that's the thing.

She tried alcohol rehab, Alcoholics Anonymous, a medication called Antabuse.

So I took every single class that I could think of-- Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Angular management.

And that became the largest program for the rehabilitation of alcoholics anywhere in the world.

We used to steal it from Sandoz Hospital because they treated alcoholics with it.

I know many people who are helplessly drug addicts and alcoholics.

with psilocybin and cancer patients or with psilocybin and alcoholics or tobacco addicts-- the depth of the mystical experience

And Wallace read "The Big Book," the founding text of Alcoholics Anonymous, and enjoyed making fun of its cheesy 1930s ad man vocabulary to his friends.

genetically are predisposed to alcoholism who never become alcoholics or that they were drinking too much and they give it up and they don't have a problem with it.

you know, when people go to Alcoholics Anonymous, the first thing they're told is clear all the alcohol out of the house.

If you're an alcoholic, you go to Alcoholics Anonymous because it's clinically proven that group therapy works for people who are or have been an alcoholic.

And it spoke to the shame that a lot of women feel and alcoholics feel.

And he actually had been in AA, in Alcoholics Anonymous, which uses gratitude a lot.

Yeah, if we were all raging alcoholics, I don't think that we would be successful.

You know, that we're not alcoholics -- we're television professionals.

one night when he was sitting on his bed before before creating Alcoholics Anonymous.

But as someone who was born and raised inside of the smoky fluorescent lit halls of Alcoholics Anonymous, I honestly can't remember a time when I didn't know the prayer

And within a few weeks of the telecast of our show, 350,000 alcoholics registered to get into rehab.

So people that don't want to drink alcohol, or alcoholics, we love you guys, too.

those of us that have these parents that lived through it, they became alcoholics because they're numb to their pain?

We started essentially what was, like, Alcoholics Anonymous type of therapy groups for them.

was going to marry her he was like first of all she's Irish you're Mexican that might make your kids double alcoholics

And I -- I -- in my experience I'm -- in the same sense that some people are recovering alcoholics, I'm a recovering manager.

matter of fact, I really believe in many of the uh uh principles of AA alcoholics synonyonymous and I do think that we

So I go into rehab centers, I sponsor people much like AA, Addicts Anonymous or Alcoholics Anonymous, they sponsor people.

For me, it was kind of like, I didn't care, like a lot of drug addicts and alcoholics, I was like I could have died at any moment,

Or, and this could be the most important thing they could do, they could start chapters of Alcoholics Anonymous.

As the folks at Alcoholics Anonymous put it, "Fake it till you make it."

Some are addicts or alcoholics and the other third is mentally

There are, in fact, AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, used to say "I believe in a Higher Power.

One of my favorite examples of this is Alcoholics Anonymous, right? So, Alcoholics Anonymous has these 12 steps to stop drinking.

be guided with a kind of honing instinct to refine that, which is why you find again and again that the children of alcoholics do not head for sober partners.

As a matter of fact, I really believe in many of the principles of AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, and I do think that we need to treat

There've been trials of alcoholics, of cocaine